Improvement in attaching pen-racks to inkstands



To all who-m. it may concern 5mm @wat @fina C. A. ROBERTS. OF WEST MERIDEN, CNNECTICUT.

Letters Patent No. 91,166,ldated June 8, 1869; anteclatcd April 27, 1869.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHING- PEN-'RACES TO INKSTANDS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making `part of 'the sameA Be it known that I, C. A. ROBERTS, of West Meriden, in the county of New Haven, and State ot Connecticut, have invented a new Improvement in Pen-Rack for Inkstands; and I do hereby declare the following, when v taken in connection with the acdompan ying drawings,

andthe. letters of reference marked thereon, to be a iull, clear, and exact description of the same, and which said drawings constitute part of this specification, and` represent, iu-

Iiigure 1, a perspective view, and in Figure 2, a top view.

Thisrinvention relates to au improvement in-V racks for holding writing-pens, the object being to combine a rack with the inkstand, so that therack may be rigidly attached thereto, but constructed so as to be adjustable to different-sized stands; and

The invention consists in forming the base ofthe :stand `so 'as to partially surround the neck, and the hase provided upon one side with an inward projection, and upon the opposite side with au adjustable `hinding-screw, the said projection and screw acting together, to rigidly bind the stand.

` g In order to the clear understanding of my invention,

I will fully describe the saine as illustrated in the accompanying drawings.

A is the base of the stand, formed with a circular recess, B, so as to extend more than half way around the neck of the iukstand, the inner edge provided upon one side with a projection, a, and upon the opposite 4side with a set-screw, d, so that when the said neck is set around the base of the stand, as denoted in fig. 2, (the neck ofthe stand being denoted in red,) the projection a grasps the neck in front -oi' a centreline, and thus tends to draw theshase on, and firmly secure it to the neck, taking a bearing at the projection, and at the screw, and also at the back.

From the base, A, standards C eritend upward, of any desirable form or configuration, upon the projections of which the peus are placed.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A. pen-rack, having the base constructed with the projection a and set-screw d, so as to be arranged uponA and secured to the inkstand, in the manner and as herein set forth.

C. A. ROBERTS.

Witnesses A. J. TIBBITs, J. H. SHUMWAY 

